it came as a very, nice compliment to today's 107th anniversary of our 1906 earthquake as we did this morning but also what happened this morning about discovering a suspicious package, just goes to remind us both that we are vigilant and that we have to do these things and keep our city safe and i want to thank again, the men and women in all of our emergency response and our law enforcement for their dedication, today it is about celebrating the contractors and all of their great work that they are doing and working with, all of our dpw folks and everybody in the construction. because of topping of is so significant to suggest more than suggest and confirm that we are on time and on budget. you know, the confidence that the public has with us handling these bonds is very important. and i value that. i value that relationship. because for supervisor kim, and board president chiu, this is what we live for, right?

supervisors we live for that public trust and we earn it to make sure that these projects are done right and on time and with that we know that we have other bonds that we will talk about more. but this is really important because it is earthquake safety. and it is today, this morning, again, with the board's help, we signed off on the soft story, seismic retrofit program to suggest that 3,000 other soft story buildings in our city will get the attention, and get firmed up, with the soft story bond. while we take care of the low income tenants that are living there to make that affordable for them as well. so i want to celebrate and thank dpw for the leadership here, for the ten year capitol planning group that has their focus to on honoring the public's wish and for all of the different, some ten different agencies coming together to make this public safety building happen. and again, to honor everybody

here and by the way, 700 construction jobs, 20 percent were committed to local hiring, that is how smart we are doing this. and it is going to be a lead gold building that we are putting up and so we are honoring the environment at the same time. again, with the wonderful collaboration that goes on with all of the designers being sensitive to how the energy needs to be efficient and everything is being done right on this and i need to be thankful to everybody who is working together. congratulations and we are looking forward to the flag and the tree being on top of this when it goes up. >> all right. another big hand for mayor ed lee and his leadership. also joining us today there are many community groups and contractors along with all of the other people that the mayor mentioned. the next person that i am going to ask to come up and say a few words, someone in 2010, when the bond went on the ballot,

really went out of his way with the leadership to make sure that the bond passed and that is why we are here today. when that bond went to the ballot, every four out of five voters voted a yes for it. and that signifies the importance of why public safety facilities in san francisco is very, very important. leading that effort, in 2010, was our president of our board of supervisors, david chiu, would you please come up and say a few words. [ applause ] >> thank you, and thanks to all of you, and i want to just take a moment to talk about where we are in the history of our city. this morning, as the mayor mentioned, at 5:00 a.m., in the dark we got together to commemorate the 107th anniversary of the great fire. and the great earthquake and i want to say for those of you who are here you look a little different in the sunlight, but 100 years ago, our city burned down for the 6th time, and part

of the reason for that was there was a lot of partying that was happening in the parber coast and north beach, the partying that still goes on today. and when our city burned down, we decided that we had to rebuild our city, and in 1913, we built what was at that time, the most amazing underground water infrastructure in the entire world so that we could get ready for the next earthquake and fire. we also built fire stations and police stations all over this city, fast forward 100 years later to 2010. many of these buildings are underground water system were in dire need of repair, i was reluctant to be the lead sponsor and champion at that time because we knew in june of 2010, the polls were not where they needed to be and they were folks in the administration that thought maybe we should wait for another ballot measure. but we came together and i want to thank those of you who worked in that campaign.

i want to thank our fire chief joanne white would put her face on 200,000 pieces of mail that went out to voters and those of you who helped us to raise 400,000 for prop b and i want to thank the men and women who are standing behind us in uniform who got out of their uniforms to campaign for us on the city streets. and i want to thank our police chief i think bruce willis, i mean chief sur at that time before he came chief he was out there marching with all of us and making sure that this got done and it got done not at the 66 percent that we thought it was going to get done, but it got done with 80 percent of san francisco saying that we need to be prepared for the 21st century. and now let me tell you that there are in addition to what the mayor said and other than the fact that it is coming in on time and a couple of reasons that i am excited about it. >> for someone who used to work at the hall of justice that building is going to come down. we need to make sure that we are ready with the command

center when the next big one hits. another reason that i am excited about it is when the fire was burning in 2006 it took 96 hours for that fire for come under control. my understanding is that this building even if all of the grids are knocked out, even if the electricity does not pipe through san francisco, this building is designed to be operational under the most primitive circumstances for 96 hours. but, part of also why i am excited about this, as a city we are a city that knows how to rebuild and how to take our steps forward and we are the phoenix and this building, represents the very best at what san francisco is going to be about as we take or we move forward to deal with any challenges or any adversities that happen in the 21st century, thank you so much for being here. [ applause ] >> as supervisor chiu said, these bonds are very important, and we have a few department heads who the public works

department has had the opportunity to work for, and i am pretty sure all of their projects are very happy with the delivery, and the former director is in the crowd, where is he? please, thank you, ed. >> we also have the port of san francisco director monique moyer here. [ applause ] >> and we have the acting director for the department of building inspection, tom right behind me. and i see a few of our friends from puc, planning and many of the other city departments. but the one thing that i like about events in san francisco as we go around the city, every supervisor gets to speak on a project in their district. and i think the supervisor whose district we are in, jane kim has got most of the projects that are happening in san francisco. yes. she does. and because i remember a few years ago i only live up the street in hunter's point this

place used to just be a lot of warehouse and now we have this whole great mission bay development, and as part of mission bay development we have the building and we have many projects in san francisco, we have the hunter's point shipyard and we have quite a number of projects and i think that because of the leadership that the mayor has brought together along with the board of supervisors that make these projects happen. >> jane would you come up and say a few words about the projects in your district? >> thank you, director, and actually i have not heard that bruce willis reference, i knew that our chef sur as the cuddlely bear that was my reference. >> district six is a very exciting place to be. as our residents know and of course the members of the city family and actually for a while the mayor and i were a traveling pair and go to a

ground breaking once or twice a week and i got a bit of a break and i forgot why the mayor was actually in china and so we held off on some of the ground breakings since i got a break to stick around the office but it is very exciting in district six. we have the mayor had mentioned 37 clean up and a lot of them in the south of market and mission bay and mid market. there is a lot of change that is happening here. when i first moved to san francisco, i actually came here to come shopping for furniture, because this is where a lot of warehouses were. a lot of what we have here was not here ten years ago. >> district six grew its population by 25,000 residents in ten years from the 2000 census to the 2010, census and so we actually boast one of the busiest fire stations in the country, under one under chief haze white and we boast the

busiest police precinct here in san francisco and i do have to thank the chief not only for his leadership and also granting us on captain who has been a tremendous public safety leader here for the south of market and i know that the residents appreciate the dedication and commitment for the south of market and mission bay, the public station is going to be very excited and shows the city's commitment to public safety. and as our district grows, that type of dedication is very important and this is an instance of where the city government works and so many different leaders and city agencies had to come together to make this possible whether it was the police department or the fire department or dpw and dbi and the mayor's office and the board of supervisors and i also want to recognize the residents that are a big part of that public safety as well. we have members of our team here. in south of market and mission bay, and all of our city works together to keep our city safe.

and that involves both our taxpayer dollars, bond dollars and also the volunteer hours of the residents who want to work to make this neighborhood and city great. so it is an honor to be here and sign the last beam of steel, i was told that there are 6206 pieces of steel in the building behind us and if you lay it flat, from the ballpark behind us it would go all wait to the oakland coliseum and that is pretty incredible. but i know that i will be hanging out here for a while at least as we wait for more development to happen in mission bay this will have one of the best views of our games. >> so, some of us will be coming out to champion our giant's team as well. thank to everyone who was involved in making this very important effort for our neighborhood happen. thank you. [ applause ] >> so, i work for the city for over 13 years.

and one of my first jobs was to maintain the hall of justice and so i can't tell you how happy i am today to be standing here. i just can't tell you, because of all of the needs of that facility. and in those days, the designs were a little different because we have a jail on top, and then we have chief sur's office underneath there and the court office and all of the main nens needs for all of the activities that happened on top, required huge maintenance hours and huge amounts of staff time to come and repair. and so i am very, very happy to be here. but i am going to ask the chief to come and talk about his vision of what he would like to see happen here. and to move out of the haul of justice and since he is a resident there and he has all of those experience and might want to share some of them with you. chief come and say a few words.

>> thank you all for being here, to say, i mean, when we do press events but we say a lot but this is big. but it is not often that you get to stand in front of something and say that is big. this is so, tremendous, i mean that cannot tell you how we are as a police department. >> the hall of justice was built in 1960, the reference of the earthquake and if that earthquake happened today. we would be out of luck, at least at the hall of justice, it would probably come down and we don't know what the loss of life would be, but that is all that we have. and when an earthquake happens because around here we know that it is not a question of this, because it could sustain itself for 96 hours and we have 72 hours.org and take care of yourself and just do what we need to do and this allows us a whole additional day to get to where we need to go. there are more people to thank

than i can count, obviously the men and women in uniform are beholden to all of the people behind me wearing arng vests and helmets thank you so much for the work that you do. [ applause ] e >> hok and mark for the design, and dpw and all of another agencies that are making it happen. certainly, mayor newsom and mayor lee for shepherding this through the board of supervisors, on and on and on and on. and certainly, finally but probably the most important are the voters, who really did get it right in 2010, and for the earthquake safety emergency response bond, and again, supervisor chiu referenced the system that was a 20-year continuous pour and that is just how smart san francisco is and this is just another intans where the city got to right and the police department and the

fire department and the public safety is going to benefit and this will house the new southern station and it is hard to believe that you could build one more thing down here but i think that supervisor kim would be welcome to have it. >> so any way, thanks again, and i can't tell you how excited we are to be here. and if it can't open in november that would be a great birthday present for me. >> [ applause ] all right. we will take that request into consideration, but we do want to follow our schedule and make sure that things are done right chief, sir, but we will do our best. yes. >> as part of the bond, we also heard the other projects and one of the key projects is all of the renovations of many of the fire houses and the fire houses are being in desperate need of upgrade and bathroom facilities and just upgrading them and bringing them up to the standard and that was also, some of the funding that was passed by the voters in 2010,

and as part of the project, we heard about hok and mark and the design i think was very challenging and bringing the two police stations, the fire house and the one thing that has not been talked about which is the community facilities which is the old fire house which was preserved and blended in with the architecture of the area and it will be a facility for the community groups and people to be able to use and that i think is a very, very important facility. we sometimes built great facility and do great things and we forget to make enough spaces for us to go and enjoy and talk about the future of what we can do. >> and so i am happy that the fire station is included in this building.

thank you for being here. >> as we reflect and commemorate our city's resil ans on this very day 107 years ago, we are here to talk about continued strength in public safety and in our community. let me first acknowledge the men and women that are here with us today from engine and truck eight and battalion, three, thank you for being here. [ applause ] . >> they work off of the granite street station and so they will be the neighboring station to our new station here. and we are also joined by our ambulance unit, medic 77, thank you for being here. and i am very proud of the men and women, all of you standing behind me but i want to acknowledge the command staff as well as the commission representative steven, and commissioner since 1996, so thank you for being here. [ applause ] >> we are very excited about this project behind us and we will have a brand new fire station in the mission bay neighborhood and it is very much needed as evidenced by what supervisor kim told you a growth of 25,000 residents in ten years. and we have seen tremendous growth both commercially and

residentially and it is fitting that we will be able to proside a neighborhood fire house for this growing neighborhood and so we are grateful for that and i should also point out that it is the first of its kind where we get along very well in this town as police and fire departments, but this is the first time that we will be sharing space together and i am looking forward to that and i have plenty of nicknames for chief and i think that i will hold off on that right now but we are delighted to be sharing space with them. share space is bigger than ours and it is very excited and it is brand new it is the first of its kind in san francisco. we are delighted and as a native san franciscoan. s what he alluded to is that i am proud and delighted to have preserved and restore, the old station 30 and it is a 1930 facility and a beautiful brick facade that will now become a community center and on the top floor, we will house our fire investigation unit, which is also a joint fire and police endeavor, so we are really

excited about that. lots of people to thank, of course, many people have already been thanked and acknowledged, first and foremost, mayor lee, for always be a champion of public safety. and he, it is a number one priority for him as it should be. like the chief said that the community, 80 percent and president chiu had a lot to do with that. in 2010, when the economy was very, very difficult everyone was skeptical about putting a 420 million bond on the ballot but we heard from the community that this is important public safety is a priority. and with nearly 80 percent of our community saying yes, we need to improve public safety by building the police department, a facility that they need and can work out of and it being very sustain able. in addition, we have so much deferred main nens to the 43 fire stations and the bond will have touched, at the end of the bond, 22 facility and obviously more to go but it has done a

huge amount to bridge the cap gap, and so we are grateful to the department of public works, we work with charles and gabriella and it is all about partnership. mayor lee under his direction and then mayor newsom have asked us and demanded of us that we do not operate in silence but work collaboratively to end up having projects like this. the last thing that i want to acknowledge is the people also in the orange vest that the chief did, you are our unsung hero and those of us in uniform we get a lot of credit but thank you to every one of you that are putting your hands on this project. and we look for wartd to the fall of 2014, when we will be able to move into these facilities. thank you. >> all right, are we ready for that alabama for that beam to go up? >> i am going to ask frank

murphy, who is the lead contractor on the project to come and say a few words and get that beam going up there. >> i can get you built, november 14th, if i could get a complimentary get out of jail free card. >> i will make it clear, we are still going to have time for the people who did not sign the beam to be able to sign it and we will ask you to step back, and we have been out here for 16 months and i want to control a couple of stats and we have had zero complaints from the neighbors and we have minimal first aid injuries on this job site and a site this big, things can happen very quickly out here and it is too, too, the dedication of the labor force out here, and the communication between the higher ups and the people down in the field that make this happen. i could tell you are coming from the field and i am the

field person that i sit in a lot of meetings with the city of san francisco and designers and it is talk to build the building, it would be a lot taller and a lot quicker. so it is tough for me to sit in the meetings but they are dedicated meetings by these people and they are important meetings. they set the tone for what is going to be built out here but at the end of the day, it is the people standing behind me, that are building this building in the orange and green vests that make the difference out here and that is going to build the building for san francisco and make all of us proud and i could not be happier to build the building for the police department and fire department of san francisco and i know that these guys are excited about it and this is a high profile building and we put a lot of time and dedication into it and i want to once again, thanks the field guys out here and we talk about it all of the time. we try to communicate that to each other and sometimes we know that during the course of a job you feel under appreciated and i think that a few people out here said it and i want you to know that the

senior person on the side appreciates you and i want you to know that the city of san francisco truly appreciates you, because in many of those meetings this is brought up that can it could not be done without you. >> thank you to the construction people building the building. we appreciate it. [ applause ] >> so, if everybody who did not sign, who would like to sign the beam, kind of come up and meander, it is a bad word and could you sign up and back out of the way so we could raise the beam, thank you.@